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Happy to see the Bilgewater event, but what about the stuff you promised about Ionia?

Blue Moon Wolf·5/30/2018, 3:16:42 AM·1 votes·1,974 views

At the end of the Dev diary for Ionia, you gave multiple promises about what was being updated in Ionia:

  • updates on a few factions (kinkou among them, but likely being saved for the Akali update)
  • The Vastaya
  • What has been going on in Ionia since the war

https://youtu.be/_cwMFzp1Ou0?t=4m50s

Since then we have gotten a few lore updates for most of the older Ionians (Save MasterYi, Syndra and a few others), a small update to Rakan and Xayah and the 3 part story for Riven and Yasuo. It's enough that you "could" say you hit what you were planning on updating, but it sounded like there was more planned. I thought there would be but now the Bilgewater event is up and I've gotten a bit worried about weather we are getting anything else for Ionia aside from what Akali will update when her Rework is done, which I'd expect would only be Ninja related stuff. So my question is are we getting anything else for Ionia or was this all that was planned?

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ZedUsanGovos5/30/2018, 2:54:42 PM2 votes

An ideal Akali VGU would be massive-- not just for Akali, but for the overarching lore of the Kinkou, Jhin, the Order, and other champs/groups.

A new VO for Kennen/Shen/Zed along with Akali's

Expanding on the Kinkou and Order of the Shadow

Expanding on the Hunt for Jhin

Connecting Syndra to Zed (gib me that juicy ZxS ritO PLS).

The Wuju Clan and how they're holding up after the Noxian Invasion

Whyte Lyon5/30/2018, 6:56:28 AM1 votes

Y'know that shortly after the Noxus LU it was teased there will be further exploration of the remaining Noxus champs. I dont recall specifically but I remember it was implied that returning was going to be this year, if true I imagine towards the end sometime. Anyway the point im getting at is the same applies to Ionia, we can only speculate how much more Ionia lore will accompany with Akali's re-release.

Although just to be extra clear Im not sure if there is a solid plan to update the remaining Noxus champs before this year ends. Perhaps the plan is to release more Noxus content in the foreseeable future but it might be like 8-10 months from now, idk. See at least Ionia and its champs have the Akali rework to compell the narrative discipline into quick action. Noxus doesnt have the same luxury unless a new Noxian champ is around the corner.

GreenLore5/30/2018, 7:15:46 AM1 votes

Well like you said,there is still the Akali update coming up and they tend to save this kind of stuff to accompany other big releases(this likely also applies to the Karma lore). And Akali could be perfect for this,as her update would likely focus on the kinkou and the order of the shadow(and the OotS are tied to the Noxus war and the vastaya)

For example the Yasuo&Riven story was written several months ago,but they only recently released it with Irelias rework.